Member of Technical Staff, Cockroach Labs

• Expertise with at least one cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and Cloud APIs
• Expertise in analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience managing large projects/initiatives to completion on your own
• Experience in software development using one or more of the following: Go, C, C++, Python, Java
• Experience running Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Proficiency in working with algorithms, data structures, and production troubleshooting
• Debugged and optimized code to automate routine tasks
• A working knowledge of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc.)
• Previous on-call experience
• Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process, partnering with your teammates on complex problems, and mentoring less senior engineers
• Ideally 5+ years of professional experience and a degree in CS or related field

Desirable

• As an Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will help manage and scale our CockroachDB Cloud services and infrastructure, which span multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP
• You will oversee our production systems, spending time developing systems, tooling, and infrastructure that ensures stable and scalable infrastructure - and the reliability and quality of our cloud offerings - as we deliver CockroachDB to our customers
• In this role, you will collaborate across multiple teams building CockroachDB’s cloud offerings and the development and product teams working on the actual database
• Our team is enabling key features of running on CockroachDB Cloud, such as multi-region deployments, customer managed encryption keys and elastic scaling
• The platform is deployed globally and will push the limits of the services cloud vendors provide today
• Design, build, and maintain our internal and customer facing systems with Cockroach Cloud
• Design, write, and deliver software and systems that increase product reliability and operational efficiency
• Develop custom tools as necessary
• Keep a complex system running and solve problems relating to mission-critical services
• Design, implement, operate, and troubleshoot the automation and deployment of internal and production Kubernetes clusters to maximize performance and availability
• Participate in an on-call rotation for our production systems and hosted services
• In your first 30 days, you will onboard and gain exposure to our current internal and customer-facing production systems
• Working with our existing Cloud Platform and engineering teams, you will learn how our systems are built and deployed and help to manage aspects of our overall Cloud operations
• We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company
• After three months, you'll be integrated fully into the team
• You will develop and own tooling for infrastructure, reliability, automation, and other issues related to CockroachDB Cloud’s stability and scalability
• You will identify new opportunities for automating processes, streamlining delivery, deploying new core functionality, and building great tools
• You will help make Cockroach Cloud the best platform to host CockroachDB on by bringing your expertise to our database product

• This position will remain posted until filled